Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

In Olympic days, a winning athlete was in the tails, but still close to other humans-- say the equivalent of someone 1.95m tall; rare but still very human. Today, because of the increase in the population involved, an athlete is equivalent to someone 2.15m tall. Much less human. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

2) SCALE TRANSFORMATION The extremely fit was just a good version of the human; today it is a deformed one. Anc. Athens had a pool of <1000 boys (citizens) in the age group. Greek Confedr < 20K? Today we select from 100s of mill: more and more deformity to gain 1 sec of speed. — PolitiTweet.org